אָמַר

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 1:8 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why don't you eat? and why is your heart grieved? am I not better to you than ten sons?
• 1 Samuel 1:11 וַ/תֹּאמַ֗ר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She vowed a vow, and said, Yahweh of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come on his head.
• 1 Samuel 1:14 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? put away your wine from you.
• 1 Samuel 1:15 וַ/תֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Hannah answered, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 1:17 וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Eli answered, Go in peace; and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.
• 1 Samuel 1:18 וַ/תֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She said, Let your handmaid find favor in your sight. So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn't sad any more.
• 1 Samuel 1:22 אָמְרָ֣ה Qal pf 3fs But Hannah didn't go up; for she said to her husband, [I will not go up] until the child be weaned; and then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and there abide forever.
• 1 Samuel 1:23 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems you good; wait until you have weaned him; only Yahweh establish his word. So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.
• 1 Samuel 1:26 וַ/תֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 2:1 וַ/תֹּאמַ֔ר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Hannah prayed, and said: My heart exults in Yahweh; My horn is exalted in Yahweh; My mouth is enlarged over my enemies; Because I rejoice in your salvation.
• 1 Samuel 2:15 וְ/אָמַר֙ conj + Qal wpf 3ms Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have boiled flesh of you, but raw.
• 1 Samuel 2:16 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר וְ/אָמַ֥ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 3ms If the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as your soul desires; then he would say, No, but you shall give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
• 1 Samuel 2:20 וְ/אָמַר֙ conj + Qal wpf 3ms Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh. They went to their own home.
• 1 Samuel 2:23 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.
• 1 Samuel 2:27 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר אָמַ֣ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 3ms There came a man of God to Eli, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt [in bondage] to Pharaoh's house?
• 1 Samuel 2:30 אָמ֣וֹר אָמַ֔רְתִּי Qal inf.abs Qal pf 1cs Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now Yahweh says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
• 1 Samuel 2:36 וְ/אָמַ֗ר conj + Qal wpf 3ms It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.
• 1 Samuel 3:4 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms that Yahweh called Samuel; and he said, Here am I.
• 1 Samuel 3:5 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He ran to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. He said, I didn't call; lie down again. He went and lay down.
• 1 Samuel 3:6 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֛אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh called yet again, Samuel. Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. He answered, I didn't call, my son; lie down again.
• 1 Samuel 3:8 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. Eli perceived that Yahweh had called the child.
• 1 Samuel 3:9 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר וְ/אָֽמַרְתָּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 2ms Therefore Eli said to Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call you, that you shall say, Speak, Yahweh; for your servant hears. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
• 1 Samuel 3:10 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel said, Speak; for your servant hears.
• 1 Samuel 3:11 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of everyone who hears it shall tingle.
• 1 Samuel 3:16 וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. He said, Here am I.
• 1 Samuel 3:17 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, "What is the thing that [Yahweh] has spoken to you? Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you."
• 1 Samuel 3:18 וַ/יֹּאמַ֕ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. He said, It is Yahweh: let him do what seems him good.
• 1 Samuel 4:3 וַ/יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp When the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why has Yahweh struck us today before the Philistines? Let us get the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of Shiloh to us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.
• 1 Samuel 4:6 וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What means the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? They understood that the ark of Yahweh was come into the camp.
• 1 Samuel 4:7 אָמְר֔וּ וַ/יֹּאמְרוּ֙ Qal pf 3cp conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. They said, Woe to us! for there has not been such a thing heretofore.
• 1 Samuel 4:14 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What means the noise of this tumult? The man hurried, and came and told Eli.
• 1 Samuel 4:16 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֛אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The man said to Eli, I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army. He said, How went the matter, my son?
• 1 Samuel 4:17 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He who brought the news answered, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
• 1 Samuel 4:21 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר prep + Qal inf.cs She named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
• 1 Samuel 4:22 וַ/תֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She said, The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken.
• 1 Samuel 5:7 וְ/אָמְר֗וּ conj + Qal pf 3cp When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us; for his hand is sore on us, and on Dagon our god.
• 1 Samuel 5:8 וַ/יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines to them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? They answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about to Gath. They carried the ark of the God of Israel [there].
• 1 Samuel 5:10 לֵ/אמֹ֗ר prep + Qal inf.cs So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. It happened, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people.
• 1 Samuel 5:11 וַ/יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people. For there was a deadly confusion throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
• 1 Samuel 6:2 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר prep + Qal inf.cs The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, "What shall we do with the ark of Yahweh? Show us with which we shall send it to its place."
• 1 Samuel 6:3 וַ/יֹּאמְר֗וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don't send it empty; but by all means return him a trespass-offering: then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you."
• 1 Samuel 6:4 וַ/יֹּאמְר֗וּ וַ/יֹּאמְר֗וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Then they said, "What shall be the trespass-offering which we shall return to him?" They said, "Five golden tumors, and five golden mice, [according to] the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
• 1 Samuel 6:20 וַ/יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
• 1 Samuel 6:21 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר prep + Qal inf.cs They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought back the ark of Yahweh; come you down, and bring it up to you.
• 1 Samuel 7:3 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר לֵ/אמֹר֒ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms prep + Qal inf.cs Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
• 1 Samuel 7:5 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you to Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 7:6 וַ/יֹּ֣אמְרוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against Yahweh. Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
• 1 Samuel 7:8 וַ/יֹּאמְר֤וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The children of Israel said to Samuel, "Don't cease to cry to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines."
• 1 Samuel 7:12 וַ/יֹּאמַ֕ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto has Yahweh helped us.
• 1 Samuel 8:5 וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons don't walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
• 1 Samuel 8:6 אָמְר֔וּ Qal pf 3cp But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 8:7 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר יֹאמְר֖וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal impf 3mp Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.
• 1 Samuel 8:10 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked of him a king.
• 1 Samuel 8:11 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;
• 1 Samuel 8:19 וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No: but we will have a king over us,
• 1 Samuel 8:22 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to their voice, and make them a king. Samuel said to the men of Israel, Go you every man to his city.
• 1 Samuel 9:3 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with you, and arise, go seek the donkeys.
• 1 Samuel 9:5 אָמַ֛ר Qal pf 3ms When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, Come, and let us return, lest my father leave off caring for the donkeys, and be anxious for us.
• 1 Samuel 9:6 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said to him, See now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes surely to pass: now let us go there; peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.
• 1 Samuel 9:7 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
• 1 Samuel 9:8 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.
• 1 Samuel 9:9 אָמַ֤ר Qal pf 3ms (In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said, Come, and let us go to the seer; for he who is now called a Prophet was before called a Seer.)
• 1 Samuel 9:10 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went to the city where the man of God was.
• 1 Samuel 9:11 וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here?
• 1 Samuel 9:12 וַ/תֹּאמַ֥רְנָה conj + Qal wimpf 3fp They answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he is] before you: make haste now, for he is come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place:
• 1 Samuel 9:15 לֵ/אמֹֽר prep + Qal inf.cs Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,
• 1 Samuel 9:17 אָמַ֣רְתִּי Qal pf 1cs When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! this same shall have authority over my people.
• 1 Samuel 9:18 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, Please, where the seer's house is.
• 1 Samuel 9:19 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer; go up before me to the high place, for you shall eat with me today: and in the morning I will let you go, and will tell you all that is in your heart.
• 1 Samuel 9:21 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul answered, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? why then speak you to me after this manner?
• 1 Samuel 9:23 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר אָמַ֣רְתִּי conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 1cs Samuel said to the cook, Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, Set it by you.
• 1 Samuel 9:24 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ לֵ/אמֹ֖ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms prep + Qal inf.cs The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. [Samuel] said, Behold, that which has been reserved! set it before you and eat; because to the appointed time has it been kept for you, for I said, I have invited the people. So Saul ate with Samuel that day.
• 1 Samuel 9:26 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר prep + Qal inf.cs They arose early: and it happened about the spring of the day, that Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, Up, that I may send you away. Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.
• 1 Samuel 9:27 אָמַ֣ר אֱמֹ֥ר Qal pf 3ms Qal impv 2ms As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us (and he passed on), but stand you still first, that I may cause you to hear the word of God.
• 1 Samuel 10:1 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, Isn't it that Yahweh has anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?
• 1 Samuel 10:2 וְ/אָמְר֣וּ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר conj + Qal wpf 3cp prep + Qal inf.cs When you are departed from me today, then you shall find two men by Rachel's tomb, in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will tell you, The donkeys which you went to seek are found; and, behold, your father has left off caring for the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
• 1 Samuel 10:11 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened, when all who knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?
• 1 Samuel 10:12 וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms One of the same place answered, Who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?
• 1 Samuel 10:14 וַ/יֹּאמֶר֩ וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, Where went you? He said, To seek the donkeys; and when we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.
• 1 Samuel 10:15 וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר אָמַ֥ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 3ms Saul's uncle said, Tell me, Please, what Samuel said to you.
• 1 Samuel 10:16 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר אָמַ֥ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 3ms Saul said to his uncle, He told us plainly that the donkeys were found. But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel spoke, he didn't tell him.
• 1 Samuel 10:18 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר אָמַ֤ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 3ms and he said to the children of Israel, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you:
• 1 Samuel 10:19 וַ/תֹּ֣אמְרוּ conj + Qal wimpf 2mp but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, [No], but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.
• 1 Samuel 10:22 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Therefore they asked of Yahweh further, Is there yet a man to come here? Yahweh answered, Behold, he has hid himself among the baggage.
• 1 Samuel 10:24 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר וַ/יֹּאמְר֖וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Samuel said to all the people, "You see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?" All the people shouted, and said, [Long] live the king.
• 1 Samuel 10:27 אָמְר֗וּ Qal pf 3cp But certain worthless fellows said, How shall this man save us? They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
• 1 Samuel 11:1 וַ/יֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.
• 1 Samuel 11:2 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition will I make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach on all Israel.
• 1 Samuel 11:3 וַ/יֹּאמְר֨וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The elders of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, if there be none to save us, we will come out to you.
• 1 Samuel 11:5 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, What ails the people that they weep? They told him the words of the men of Jabesh.
• 1 Samuel 11:7 לֵ/אמֹר֒ prep + Qal inf.cs He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, Whoever doesn't come forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. The dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man.
• 1 Samuel 11:9 וַ/יֹּאמְר֞וּ תֹֽאמְרוּ/ן֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Qal impf 2mp + sfx n They said to the messengers who came, Thus shall you tell the men of Jabesh Gilead, Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have deliverance. The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
• 1 Samuel 11:10 וַֽ/יֹּאמְרוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Therefore the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.
• 1 Samuel 11:12 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר הָ/אֹמֵ֔ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms The people said to Samuel, Who is he who said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
• 1 Samuel 11:13 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day; for today Yahweh has worked deliverance in Israel.
• 1 Samuel 11:14 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.
• 1 Samuel 12:1 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 2mp Samuel said to all Israel, Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.
• 1 Samuel 12:4 וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything of any man's hand.
• 1 Samuel 12:5 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said to them, Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. They said, He is witness.
• 1 Samuel 12:6 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel said to the people, It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
• 1 Samuel 12:10 ו/יאמר וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They cried to Yahweh, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh, and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.
• 1 Samuel 12:12 וַ/תֹּ֣אמְרוּ conj + Qal wimpf 2mp When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, No, but a king shall reign over us; when Yahweh your God was your king.
• 1 Samuel 12:19 וַ/יֹּאמְר֨וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp All the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins [this] evil, to ask us a king.
• 1 Samuel 12:20 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel said to the people, "Don't be afraid; you have indeed done all this evil; yet don't turn aside from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart:
• 1 Samuel 13:3 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר prep + Qal inf.cs Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba: and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
• 1 Samuel 13:4 לֵ/אמֹ֗ר prep + Qal inf.cs All Israel heard say that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was had in abomination with the Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.
• 1 Samuel 13:9 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul said, Bring here the burnt offering to me, and the peace-offerings. He offered the burnt offering.
• 1 Samuel 13:11 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel said, What have you done? Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;
• 1 Samuel 13:12 וָ/אֹמַ֗ר conj + Qal wimpf 1cs therefore said I, Now will the Philistines come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven't entreated the favor of Yahweh: I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering.
• 1 Samuel 13:13 וַ/יֹּ֧אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you: for now would Yahweh have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
• 1 Samuel 13:19 אמר אָמְר֣וּ Qal pf 3ms Qal pf 3cp Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
• 1 Samuel 14:1 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side. But he didn't tell his father.
• 1 Samuel 14:6 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint to Yahweh to save by many or by few.
• 1 Samuel 14:7 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms His armor bearer said to him, Do all that is in your heart: turn you, behold, I am with you according to your heart.
• 1 Samuel 14:8 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will disclose ourselves to them.
• 1 Samuel 14:9 יֹֽאמְרוּ֙ Qal impf 3mp If they say thus to us, Wait until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.
• 1 Samuel 14:10 יֹאמְר֜וּ Qal impf 3mp But if they say thus, Come up to us; then we will go up; for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand: and this shall be the sign to us.
• 1 Samuel 14:11 וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
• 1 Samuel 14:12 וַ/יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. Jonathan said to his armor bearer, Come up after me; for Yahweh has delivered them into the hand of Israel.
• 1 Samuel 14:17 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then said Saul to the people who were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. When they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.
• 1 Samuel 14:18 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul said to Ahijah, Bring here the ark of God. For the ark of God was [there] at that time with the children of Israel.
• 1 Samuel 14:19 וַ/יֹּ֧אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened, while Saul talked to the priest, that the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said to the priest, Withdraw your hand.
• 1 Samuel 14:24 לֵ/אמֹ֗ר prep + Qal inf.cs The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man who eats any food until it be evening, and I be avenged on my enemies. So none of the people tasted food.
• 1 Samuel 14:28 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר לֵ/אמֹ֔ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms prep + Qal inf.cs Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father directly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man who eats food this day. The people were faint.
• 1 Samuel 14:29 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then said Jonathan, My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
• 1 Samuel 14:33 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר prep + Qal inf.cs conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against Yahweh, in that they eat with the blood. He said, you have dealt treacherously: roll a great stone to me this day.
• 1 Samuel 14:34 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר וַ/אֲמַרְתֶּ֣ם conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 2mp Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don't sin against Yahweh in eating with the blood. All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there.
• 1 Samuel 14:36 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. They said, Do whatever seems good to you. Then said the priest, Let us draw near here to God.
• 1 Samuel 14:38 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul said, Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been this day.
• 1 Samuel 14:40 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר וַ/יֹּאמְר֤וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Then said he to all Israel, Be you on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. The people said to Saul, Do what seems good to you.
• 1 Samuel 14:41 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, Show the right. Jonathan and Saul were taken [by lot]; but the people escaped.
• 1 Samuel 14:42 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul said, Cast [lots] between me and Jonathan my son. Jonathan was taken.
• 1 Samuel 14:43 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר וַ/יֹּאמֶר֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done. Jonathan told him, and said, I did certainly taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and, behold, I must die.
• 1 Samuel 14:44 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul said, God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.
• 1 Samuel 14:45 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.
• 1 Samuel 15:1 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel said to Saul, Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore listen you to the voice of the words of Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 15:2 אָמַר֙ Qal pf 3ms Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, I have marked that which Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.
• 1 Samuel 15:6 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you shown kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
• 1 Samuel 15:10 לֵ/אמֹֽר prep + Qal inf.cs Then came the word of Yahweh to Samuel, saying,
• 1 Samuel 15:12 לֵ/אמֹ֗ר prep + Qal inf.cs Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a monument, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.
• 1 Samuel 15:13 וַ/יֹּ֧אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, Blessed are you by Yahweh: I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 15:14 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
• 1 Samuel 15:15 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
• 1 Samuel 15:16 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר ו/יאמרו וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh has said to me this night. He said to him, Say on.
• 1 Samuel 15:17 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;
• 1 Samuel 15:18 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.'
• 1 Samuel 15:20 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
• 1 Samuel 15:22 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel said, Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
• 1 Samuel 15:24 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
• 1 Samuel 15:26 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.
• 1 Samuel 15:28 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel said to him, Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.
• 1 Samuel 15:30 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, Please, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.
• 1 Samuel 15:32 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then said Samuel, Bring you here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
• 1 Samuel 15:33 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.
• 1 Samuel 16:1 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.
• 1 Samuel 16:2 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר וְ/אָ֣מַרְתָּ֔ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 2ms Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. Yahweh said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 16:3 אֹמַ֖ר Qal impf 1cs Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do: and you shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.
• 1 Samuel 16:4 וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, Come you peaceably?
• 1 Samuel 16:5 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, Peaceably; I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
• 1 Samuel 16:6 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and said, Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him.
• 1 Samuel 16:7 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
• 1 Samuel 16:8 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
• 1 Samuel 16:9 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
• 1 Samuel 16:10 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, Yahweh has not chosen these.
• 1 Samuel 16:11 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? He said, There remains yet the youngest, and, behold, he is keeping the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him; for we will not sit down until he come here.
• 1 Samuel 16:12 וַ/יֹּ֧אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful face, and goodly to look on. Yahweh said, Arise, anoint him; for this is he.
• 1 Samuel 16:15 וַ/יֹּאמְר֥וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Saul's servants said to him, See now, an evil spirit from God troubles you.
• 1 Samuel 16:16 יֹאמַר Qal juss 3ms Let our lord now command your servants who are before you, to seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp: and it shall happen, when the evil spirit from God is on you, that he shall play with his hand, and you shall be well.
• 1 Samuel 16:17 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man who can play well, and bring him to me.
• 1 Samuel 16:18 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him.
• 1 Samuel 16:19 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.
• 1 Samuel 16:22 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר prep + Qal inf.cs Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.
• 1 Samuel 17:8 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, Why are you come out to set your battle in array? am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
• 1 Samuel 17:10 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
• 1 Samuel 17:17 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jesse said to David his son, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry [them] quickly to the camp to your brothers;
• 1 Samuel 17:25 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The men of Israel said, Have you seen this man who is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
• 1 Samuel 17:26 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר לֵ/אמֹר֒ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms prep + Qal inf.cs David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
• 1 Samuel 17:27 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר לֵ/אמֹ֑ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms prep + Qal inf.cs The people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man who kills him.
• 1 Samuel 17:28 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why are you come down? and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.
• 1 Samuel 17:29 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
• 1 Samuel 17:30 וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He turned away from him toward another, and spoke after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
• 1 Samuel 17:32 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
• 1 Samuel 17:33 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul said to David, You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
• 1 Samuel 17:34 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms David said to Saul, Your servant was keeping his father's sheep; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock,
• 1 Samuel 17:37 וַ/יֹּאמֶר֮ וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms David said, Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. Saul said to David, Go, and Yahweh shall be with you.
• 1 Samuel 17:39 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms David girded his sword on his clothing, and he tried to go; for he had not proved it. David said to Saul, I can't go with these; for I have not proved them. David put them off him.
• 1 Samuel 17:43 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks? The Philistine cursed David by his gods.
• 1 Samuel 17:44 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the field.
• 1 Samuel 17:45 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
• 1 Samuel 17:55 אָמַ֗ר וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר Qal pf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? Abner said, As your soul lives, O king, I can't tell.
• 1 Samuel 17:56 וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The king said, "Inquire whose son the young man is!"
• 1 Samuel 17:58 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul said to him, Whose son are you, you young man? David answered, I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
• 1 Samuel 18:7 וַ/תֹּאמַ֑רְןָ conj + Qal wimpf 3fp The women sang one to another as they played, and said, Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands.
• 1 Samuel 18:8 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
• 1 Samuel 18:11 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms and Saul cast the spear; for he said, I will strike David even to the wall. David avoided out of his presence twice.
• 1 Samuel 18:17 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר אָמַ֗ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 3ms Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I give you as wife: only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's battles. For Saul said, Don't let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.
• 1 Samuel 18:18 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my life, [or] my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?
• 1 Samuel 18:21 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, You shall this day be my son-in-law a second time.
• 1 Samuel 18:22 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר prep + Qal inf.cs Saul commanded his servants, [saying], Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the king's son-in-law.
• 1 Samuel 18:23 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, Seems it to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?